Georges Gilles de la Tourette (* 30 October 1857 in Saint Gervais of les Trois Clochers with Loudun; "† 22. May 1904 in Lausanne), complete name Georges Albert Brutus Gilles de la Tourette, was a French neurologist and right physician.

Life

Tourette began a medicine study in Poitiers with 16 years and continued it in Paris. 1885 it locked the study, became 1893 hospital physician and 1900 lecturer. It was one of Jean Martin Charcots favourite pupils, its family doctor and appointed secretary. Charcot promoted in response the academic career Tourettes.

Tourette busy itself first intensively with new therapy forms such as vibration therapy and Hypnose. Also Sigmund Freud visited Tourettes lectures and by it was so surely affected.

1896 were shot Tourette of a paranoiden young Mrs., a female patient at the Salptri¨re, into the head. It maintained its health against will to have been hypnotisiert and of it have lost. The procedure excited at that time much attention and fed the conception that were possible for causing criminal actions under Hypnose, a thesis the Tourette vehement rejected. It survived the assassination attempt, had however in the consequence depressions and was hypomanisch, which led 1902 also to its joggle.

Tourette furnished fundamental contributions to the hysteria and medicine-legal aspects of the Hypnose. 1884 it began a study at nine patients with kompulsiven Tics, over the Tourette syndrome designated today after it.

Works

• L'hypnotisme et les analogues outer POINT de vue lgal. Paris, 1887
• clinique et de l' D' l' enseignement de la Paris, 1891.
• de clinique sur les maladies you nerveux. Paris, 1898.
• Les mdicales. Formes of cliniques et traitement the syphilitiques. Paris, 1899.
• La maladie TIC convulsifs. La semaine 1899, 19:153 - 156.

Related links

• Tourette with whonamedit.com

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